We are pleased to announce that Lehigh ISE Assistant Professor Meng Zhao has been elected as a Director of the Data Analytics and Information Systems Division (DAIS) of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) for 2026-2028.
Recently, MechE Prof. Natasha Vermaak led her team including Profs. L. Valdevit, D. Mumm, X. Shi, at UC Irvine and Prof. M. Taheri-Mousavi at Carnegie Mellon University to host a workshop by invitation only for over 35 leaders in industry, government labs, and academia working at the cutting edge of materials technologies for rotating detonation engines (RDEs) (Figure 1).
Lehigh ISE Professor Ted Ralphs has been elected Chair-Elect of the Bilevel Optimization Society (BOS). He will serve a one-year term as Chair-Elect before assuming a two-year term as Chair, followed by one year as Past Chair. Bilevel optimization is a field of optimization that addresses hierarchical optimization problems in which a leader (upper level) decides the values of a set of decision variables and a follower (lower level) reacts by solving a problem that depends on the leader’s choice.
Keith Moored, a professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics in Lehigh University’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, was recently selected to join the Defense Science Study Group (DSSG), a highly selective program that connects leading academic researchers with U.S. national security challenges. Moored is one of just 18 academics selected from more than 150 nominated by universities across the country for the class of 2027-28.
Engineering complex human tissues in a laboratory setting has long been a major goal for regenerative medicine and disease modeling. To help overcome the significant challenge of recreating the intricate environments of the human body, E. Thomas Pashuck, an assistant professor of bioengineering in Lehigh University’s P.C.
Two faculty members from Lehigh University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering have contributed to a book recognized with the 2026 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award.
The modern power grid is no longer a straightforward, one-way system.
Just 20 years ago, demand strictly dictated generation. Today, the grid is a massive, nonlinear web driven by distributed energy resources (DERs), such as solar arrays, wind farms, and battery storage. These resources rely on power electronics to interface with the grid, creating bidirectional flows where customers (including communities and even individual households) can both consume and supply electricity.
Lehigh University researchers have built the first “AI for Science” software tool designed to support the entire project workflow for research scientists.
Dan M. Frangopol, the inaugural Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture Emeritus and professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering at Lehigh University, has been selected to receive the 2026 Arthur M. Wellington Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Critical congenital heart diseases, or CCHDs, are a group of life-threatening structural heart defects present at birth. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1 in 4 babies born with a heart defect has a CCHD, and treatment—medication and/or surgery—must take place within the first year of life.
Today, all babies born in U.S. hospitals are screened for these conditions using pulse oximetry, a noninvasive test that measures blood oxygen levels.
